Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-09-23

erS'' address the convention. Thera were
cries for Sanger. Harrison and Lurty.
Capt. Lurty, who was most loudly called
for, made brief speech In which he made
the faith-trying assertionthat tout of this
body now assembled he could pick one hun
dred men capable of representing Rome in
her Senate in its primal days" The Roman
Senators cheered this fattering allusion te
themselves with much fervor. Before con.
Guiding the speaker defined his position on
the Presidential question by saying that the
Republican party of the country in 1888
would return James Il. Blaine to the Pres.
idency out Of which be had been defraud.
ed!
THE SENATOR.
After limiting the nominating speeches
to two minutes, the convention got down
to the work cut out for it. There were
two nominees for the Senate-Mr. Stuart
F. Lindsay, clever young lawyer of
Bridge water. whose nomination was made
by MI. Revercomb and seconded by It,
GOV. Lewis; and Mr.. John Acker, who
Was aOuiu&tCO Ny Ia wow ho fOVO
stood-Acker IS, Lindsay %, and Mr.. A.
was declared nominated amid great cheer
ing. His nomination was made unani-
nous, and being called for he appeared and
said few words accepting 1t. He was
evidently the pet of the convention and
what he said, though it was little, and
very awkwardly said, was cheered to the
echo.
THE DELEGATES.
The names which / have mentioned be-
fore in this letter were then put before
the convention for the House of Dele
gates. A dozen more members of the
body had come in by this time and the
vote to be divided out was 116. Both de-
legates were voted for at once, and the
result was announced to be-Jno. E.
Sanger II, DR.. Webb 70, Capt. Lurty So,
Samuel H. Lewis %, J. Fl. Ship 7. So
the two highest, Sanger and Webb. were
declared the nominees.
GOING TO AVOID THE VORTEX.
DR.. Webb was called for and accepted
the nomination in speech which he must
have had in his pocket since the days of
readjustment, so dry and hard was it.
But there was one modern point which
showed the Doctor knew thin piece of
ice when he saw it. He said he intended
to speak in this canvass, but did not in
tend that ''the Democratic orators shall
draw me into the vortex of the issue that
William Malone is to be q. S. Senator"
The Doctor means well, but he reminds
me of some of those Democratic orators in
the Congressional election of 1880 who
said they did not intend to be drawn into
the vortex of the discussion of readjust-
ment as an issue. But they were drawn,
all the same, and were drowned besides.
And so the Doctor will find it. What is
in the minds Of the people must be talked
about by those who address them, land the
Democratic orators will not only draw
him into the vortex of Malone as an
issue, but they will drown him and put
buoy at the spot he went down; inscribed
"Another Malone man wrecked"
don't think, however, that the Demo-
cratic orators will get either Mr.. Acker
or Mr.. Sanger in any vortex Of the orator.
ical sort. Neither are or pretend to be
speakers-indeed, think 1 may say that
in twenty years experience in reporting
political meetings, [ have never heard
from nominees such failures. But they
did not lack good sense nor earnestness,
and the one hundred members Of the pri-
NAL Roman senate cheered them with a
vim that showed that they didn't care
about the speeches, so the speakers were
all right. And just here 1 may warn their
opponents to take no hope from their
want of oratory. for they are both said to
be wonderfully good canvassers; or as a
prominent Republican worker said to me.
s'They cannot speak, but they can climb a
fence.'' There is good deal of meaning
in that recommendation, to man familiar
with political canvasses.
THE CONVENTION.
The convention was full one, full Of
vim and fight, and it would be useless to
underrate it. 1t was more; it was under
complete control-what appeared to me to
D6 d COuGIOl Wy uhO 2OooOAos
Would you believe it; from first to last the
name of William Malone was only men
toned once, and that was by the vortex
orator. Think of Democratic meeting,
full and lively, with Daniel Or Fitz Lee
candidate for Governor and neither name
mentioned but once-and you will under
stand how skilfully this gathering must
have been arranged to prevent the name Of
Vortex Malone being mentioned oftener.
In closing its business, the convention
rather against Mr.. D. S. Lewis protest,
reelected him unanimously to the posi-
tion of county chairman.
The Democratic nominating convention
will be held, hear, somewhere about DC
tober 1st. The election of Democrats to
Offices in the county over Republicans. in
the general election last spring has consld,
erably changed the feeling about the fall
election, and the Democrats. notwith
standing the fact that Rockingham is a
Republican county, are as full Of fight and
as chippery as an English sparrow when
he starts in to drive a big blue bird off its
nest. Il. C. T.
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